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Painted with Photoshop CS3 with a Wacom Intous 3. I believe it took me about 36hrs over a few weekends to finish. I had a lot of fun painting this. It's the kind of thing I like to paint the most; that is people riding on creatures in an alien landscape with multiple moons/planets in the sky. FUN, FUN, FUN!

I used a little bit of photo reference of myself to make sure the poses were correct and to get the hands right. Hands are a pain to paint but will make or break a painting so I spend extra time trying to do them justice.

Thanks. I have to say ideas can come from strange places. The origin of this painting was started with my son wanting a funny/strange picture for his Facebook page. I suggested making a photoshopped/painted picture of him riding our cat. But as I began painting the concept for it I changed it to an alien creature, he lost interest in being a part of it so I kept working on it until it turned into this. So I'll thank my son Nick for the inspiration of this one.